Posts by Alby

WXPN has had this tune in heavy rotation since it dropped two months ago, but I didn't hear it until this weekend. The Felice Brothers, who began with a trio…

Nanci Griffith was an accomplished singer and songwriter who broke through after moving from her native Austin to Nashville in 1985, but her greatest acclaim came with her Grammy-winning 1993…

Enough with the ersatz Bruce -- let's play some of the real thing. Springsteen recorded this track with the E Street Band in 1982, at the same Power Station sessions…

Yesterday's post about Jack Antonoff's solo project Bleachers included the tune he recorded with Bruce Springsteen, and I mentioned how much it sounded like one of Springsteen's late-period moody ballads.…

I heard this song on the radio the other day and, being a sucker for major-key pop song with a good hook, I looked up who did it, because I…

Yes, we take requests -- we don't always fulfill them, but we take them -- and Jason330 suggested this as the response to the UN report on climate change that…

Dennis "D.T." Thomas, alto saxophone player and founding member of Kool & the Gang, died Saturday, and while the obituaries listed the band's numerous hit records and various lifetime achievement…